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Book
Weapons of the Weak
2008
Overview
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. Small Arms Fire in the Class War -- Razak -- Haji \"Broom\" -- The Symbolic Balance of Power -- 2. Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance -- The Unwritten History of Resistance -- Resistance as Thought and Symbol -- The Experience and Consciousness of Human Agents -- 3. The Landscape of Resistance -- Background: Malaysia and the Paddy Sector -- Middle Ground: Kedah and the Muda Irrigation Scheme -- Landownership -- Farm Size -- Tenure -- Mechanization -- From Exploitation to Marginalization -- Income -- Poverty -- lnstitultional Access -- 4. Sedaka, 1967-1979 -- The Village -- Rich and Poor -- Village Composition -- Land Tenure -- Changes in Tenancy -- Changes in Rice Production and Wages -- Local Institutions and Economic Power -- The Farmers' Association -- The Ruling Party in Sedaka -- 5. History according to Winners and Losers -- Class-ifying -- Ships Passing-and Signaling-in the Night -- Two Subjective Class Histories of the Green Revolution -- Double-cropping and Double Vision -- From Living Rents to Dead Rents -- Combine-Harvesters -- Losing Ground: Access to Paddy Land -- Rituals of Compassion and Social Control -- The Remembered Village -- 6. Stretching the Truth: Ideology at Work -- Ideological Work in Determinate Conditions -- The Vocabulary of Exploitation -- Bending the Facts: Stratification and Income -- Rationalizing Exploitation -- Ideological Conflict: The Village Gate -- Ideological Conflict: The Village Improvement Scheme -- Argument as Resistance -- 7 . Beyond the War of Words: Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity -- Obstacles to Open, Collective Resistance -- The Effort to Stop the Combine-Harvester -- \"Routine\" Resistance -- Trade Unionism without Trade Unions -- Imposed Mutuality -- Self-help and/or Enforcement -- Prototype Resistance -- \"Routine\" Repression.
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN
0300036418, 9780300036411
